Dear Sir/Madam,
(Apologies for cross-posting)
CALL FOR GENERAL PARTICIPATION
in
AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012
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in honour of Alan Turing
July 2nd to 6th, 2012
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/
or via
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/
organized by
*** Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
[http://www.aisb.org.uk/]
*** International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)
[http://www.ia-cap.org/]
EARLY-BIRD Registration Deadline: 1 June 2012
AISB and IACAP have joined forces to run the above Congress in 2012. The
Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP
conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan
Turing and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to
the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to philosophy and
computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the
Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/).
The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich
interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest,
whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not.
The conference consists mainly of various Symposia of varying lengths
and some Plenary Keynote Talks.
In addition, Dermot Turing, who is Alan Turing's nephew and is Honorary
President of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee, will give a short
speech at the Congress Dinner on Thursday 5th July.
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Please see the above Congress site for details. For details of specific
papers within symposia, please contact the organizers of the specific
symposia you are interested in.
The Symposia are as follows:
-- Computing, Philosophy and the Question of Bio-Machine Hybrids:
4th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy
-- Computational Philosophy
-- Revisiting Turing and his Test:
Comprehensiveness, Qualia, and the Real World
-- Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2012)
-- Mathematical Practice and Cognition II
-- History and Philosophy of Programming
-- Philosophy of Computer Science:
PoC Meets AI and Law (Roundtable Discussion)
-- Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Networks and Multiagent Systems
-- Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena (UMoCoP)
-- Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in AI
-- The Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility
-- Moral Cognition & Theory of Mind
-- Information and Computer Ethics
in the Age of the Information Revolution
-- Information Quality
-- Natural/Unconventional Computing and its Philosophical Significance
-- Nature-Inspired Computing and Applications: 1st Symposium (NICA)
-- Turing Arts Symposium
There is also an "Author Meets Critics Session" on Luciano Floridi's
book The Philosophy of Information.
The Plenary Keynote Speakers are:
COLIN ALLEN
Provost Professor of Cognitive Science
and of History & Philosophy of Science
Department of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
"Computational philosophy and the examined text:
a tale of two encyclopedias"
S BARRY COOPER
Professor at the School of Mathematics
University of Leeds, UK
Chair of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee
"AI - Hobby or Science?
Structure, Embodied Cognition, and the Turing Legacy"
LUCIANO FLORIDI
Professor of Philosophy
and UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics
University of Hertfordshire
and
Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford
"From AI to the Philosophy of Information:
Doing Philosophy after Turing"
BENJAMIN KUIPERS
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Michigan, USA
"Constructing the Foundations of Commonsense Knowledge"
AARON SLOMAN
Honorary Professor, School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham, UK
"Varieties of Meta-Morphogenesis
in the Bootstrapping of Biological Minds"
BLAY WHITBY
Formerly of and associated with
Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK
"In loco humanae: how we missed and continue to ignore
the ethical implications of AI"
Blay is the keynote speaker appointed by SGAI, the BCS Specialist Group
on Artificial Intelligence.
Congress Chairs
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Overall Chairs:
Anthony Beavers
Philosophy and Cognitive Science
The University of Evansville
1800 Lincoln Avenue
Evansville, Indiana 47722 USA
+1 812-488-2682
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(Tony is the President of IACAP)
John Barnden
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2TT
+44 (0)121-414-3816
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(John is currently Vice-Chair of AISB,
and was Chair from 2003 to 2010)
Local Chair and Deputy Programme Chair:
Dr Manfred Kerber
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2LY
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